• Bestem dig for aldrig at være stillestÃ¥ende. Ingen person vil have grund til at beklage sig over at mangle tid, hvem der aldrig spilder nogen tid. Det er vidunderligt, hvor meget der kan gøres, hvis vi altid er i gang.
• De fleste mænd er skoledrenge gennem hele livet.
• Det mest værdifulde af alle talenter, er evnen til ikke at bruge to ord, nÃ¥r et er nok
• En redaktør kan opdele sin avis i fire sektioner med følgende overskrifter: Sandheder som den første. Den anden muligheder. Den tredje sandsynligheder og den fjerde løgne.
• Hvis jeg skulle bestemme, om vi skulle have en regering uden aviser eller aviser uden regering, ville jeg ikke tøve et øjeblik med at vælge det sidste.
• Jeg lever for bøger.
• Jeg skælver for mit land, nÃ¥r jeg tænker pÃ¥, at Gud er retfærdig.
• Jo hÃ¥rdere jeg arbejder, jo mere held synes jeg at fÃ¥.
• Sandheden er første kapitel i visdommens bog.
• Vi anser disse sandheder for indlysende: at alle mennesker er født lige, og at de af deres skaber er forlenet med visse umistelige rettigheder, blandt hvilke er: Liv, Frihed og Retten til at søge Lykken.
• Vær høflig mod alle, men fortrolig overfor fÃ¥.

Engelske citater:

• A little rebellion now is a good thing
• A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean.
• About John Adams: "He is distrustful, obstinate, excessively vain, and takes no counsel from anyone."
• Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
• All authority belongs to the people.
• Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
• Be polite to all, but intimate with few
• Delay is preferable to error
• Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook.
• Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind
• How much have cost us the evils that never happened
• I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have
• I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man
• I live for books
• I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just
• I'm a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more I have of it
• Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
• It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read
• My views and feelings [are] in favor of the abolition of war, and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
• Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
• No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free, no one ever will.
• No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap
• Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error , Notes on the State of Virginia
• That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves
• The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants
• Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one
• Truth is the first chapter in the book of wisdom
• Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property
• When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. , Writings